Archive for January, 2004

Ryko is celebrating its first 20 years with a compilation disc that includes Frank Zappa, David Bowie, John Cale and Bill Hicks. Juicy details of the last twenty years can be found here, written by none other than Ryko founders Don Rose, Arthur Mann and Rob Simonds.

“I’m neutral in this race but I’m for freedom of speech, which means people should be able to assemble and speak without being shouted down,” says Al Franken who, previously, had emerged from the crowd at a Dean rally and charged one male protester, grabbing him with a bear hug from behind and slamming him onto the floor. Aaah, free speech! I could tell a few stories…(via xkot)

Former Jethro Tull Keyboardist and arranger David Palmer has had a sex-change operation and is now a woman called Dee. She broke the news to Tull’s frontman Ian Anderson by saying: “There’s something I need to get off my increasingly ample chest.” You go, girl!

I just heard in the news this morning that Exxon confirmed a settlement of 6.75 billion dollars (4.5 billion plus interest) as compensation for that big, nasty oil spill fifteen years ago. There’s nothing like that sleek, fast, “well-oiled” legal machinery!

“Monster Road”, the documentary on visionary ClaymationMeister Bruce Bickford wins at Slamdance. Co-producer Jim Haverkamp writes: “Bruce Bickford attended the festival and delighted the crowds with his dry wit and mysterious ways. Some lucky folks even got one of his homemade business cards, which are made out of a piece of foam core and contain a tiny clay dude.”

Don’t shoot the messenger! For those of you who are loading and reloading HotPoop like there’s no tomorrow, well: there’s no tomorrow. Or better said, there’s no friday boot today. Barry is totally *incommunicado* at work (no internet available) and asked me to let you all know there won’t be any boot today, and there won’t be any, at least, until the 10th February, when a new cycle in his *evilish* bandwidth-meter starts again…money is too tight to mention, Oh money money money… Let’s see the bright side of this: now, you have more time to enjoy the boots you already downloaded; you can also check how are the vines working (btw, Balint, your disks are on your way already!)…and…and…Maybe there’s a good show on the tv tonight?? I hate it when i’m this optimist, you know :-)

Ed Palermo has put some video highlights of Zappanale #13 on his site. Right now i’m listening to a Candy Z’s Modified Let’s make the Water Turn Black, and boy, she has a voice! There’s also a lot of MP3′s to download here. (thanks Francesco from the zuts who saw it first!)

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